Honduras

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 14, 2015

Wave of anticorruption protests sweeping Latin America spreads to Guatemala and Honduras as demonstrators demand resignations of Pres Otto Perez Molina and Pres Juan Orlando over allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud within their administrations; protests differ from other anticorruption movements in Central America in that that they are grassroots driven and are directed at perpetrators who are still in office. MORE

Mar. 20, 2015

Op-Ed article by editor Tom Lutz describes scholarly and ethical quandary presented by discovery of trove of artifacts in Colombia and desire to protect them from looters, as scientists weigh whether to leave objects in place for further study or remove them for safekeeping; offers hope that publicity around discovery and Honduran government's decision to protect site will result in preservation of knowledge it has to offer to society. MORE

Feb. 17, 2015

Twenty-one police officers assigned to United States Embassy in Honduras are suspended on suspicion they took $1.3 million from $12.5 million seized in October 2014 raid of Valle Valle drug cartel; money was recovered during capture of leader MIguel Valle Valle; Honduras has world’s highest murder rate and police have been accused of corruption and extrajudicial killings. MORE

Jan. 30, 2015

Op-Ed article by Vice Pres Joseph R Biden Jr holds that tremendous problems facing El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras can be addressed given sustained effort that has been forthcoming from their leaders and help from United States; contends America's fortunes are linked to those of South America, ignoring their problems brings them to US doorstep; urges Congress to approve $1 billion Pres Obama has requested to make reforms in South America, saying failure to do so will cost far more. MORE

Nov. 20, 2014

Body of Honduran beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado is found along with that of her sister Sofia near riverbank near their home in western Honduras, six days after they disappeared; police say both women were shot; sisters' disappearance riveted country where violence against women has risen sharply. MORE

Nov. 19, 2014

Police in Honduras arrest two suspects in disappearance of Miss Honduras, Maria Jose Alvarado, and her sister Sofia; Plutarco Ruiz, one of the suspects, is the boyfriend of Sofia Alvarado. MORE

Nov. 18, 2014

Police in Honduras say they are intensifying search for Maria Jose Alvarado, Miss Honduras beauty queen, who has been missing for almost a week along with her sister Sofia. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Deterioration of Honduras is exemplified by neighborhood of Chamelecon in the city of San Pedro Sula, where residents face daily grind of murder and mayhem; Honduras has become one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere over the past two decades; gang violence has spurred the child migrant crisis as many of its young people flee to the United States. MORE

Jul. 26, 2014

Pres Obama urges Presidents Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala and Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador to help stem the flow of migrant children toward the United States border; meeting comes as White House continues to press Congress for more resources and authority to confront the flood of migrants, especially children. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

Obama administration, hoping to stem surge of migrants at Southwest border, is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into United States without making dangerous trek through Mexico; plan would screen thousands to see if they can enter US as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds. MORE

Jul. 19, 2014

Pres Obama summons presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to the White House in effort to demonstrate high-level cooperation to stanch flow of migrant children into United States; meeting comes as administration struggles to win approval to shore up border security and care for the 57,000 unaccompanied children who have arrived since fall of 2013. MORE

Jul. 13, 2014

Op-Ed article by author Sonia Nazario contends that vast majority of child migrants from Honduras are traveling to the United States to flee violence; maintains what US is seeing on its borders is a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis; describes how rise of violence is due to dominance of foreign drug cartels, particularly ones from Mexico. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

Increase in gang-related killings of children is a key factor driving surge of migration of young Central Americans to the United States; nowhere is the flow of departures more acute than in San Pedro Sula, Honduran city that has the world's highest homicide rate; Homeland Security Dept reports that between Jan and May of 2014, more than 2,200 children from San Pedro Sula arrived in the US, far more than from any other city in Central America. MORE

Jul. 5, 2014

Three miners are rescued after more than two days trapped underground in small wildcat gold mine that collapsed in southern Honduras; eight others remain missing. MORE

Jun. 27, 2014

Honduran officials release six Americans who traveled to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras in May planning to dredge a river but ended up in jail on weapons charges. MORE

Jun. 8, 2014

Marine salvage expert Robert Mayne and five-man crew of his company Aqua Quest International, arriving in Honduras for project agreed to by municipality of Ahuas, are arrested by Honduran police and jailed on charges of weapons possession; Ahuas officials are fighting the arrests and a court in La Ceiba is considering group's appeal of what they contend is unlawful detention. MORE

Jun. 6, 2014

About 1,000 women and children, mainly from Central American, have been dropped off in Phoenix since Memorial Day weekend with little more than bottles of water, apples and potato chips; up to four buses a day arrive, each filled to capacity with undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras; situation is enraging local groups and causing alarm among Border Patrol officials; unanticipated surge in migrants has created political, practical and humanitarian crisis for Obama administration. MORE

Mar. 9, 2014

Op-Ed article by reporter Oscar Martinez contends Honduran Pres Juan Orlando Hernandez's strategy for dealing with crime is merely a continuation of hard-line policies that have accomplished little; notes that although Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, former police chief that personified this strategy, has been replaced, country seems incapable of learning from its past. MORE

Mar. 4, 2014

Tegucigalpa Journal; Honduras nonprofit group Assn for a More Just Society is engaged in an experiment where middlemen track down witnesses to murders and persuade them to cooperate with authorities; project is attempting to show how the cycle of violence and impunity in the country can be broken. MORE

Feb. 13, 2014

Copen Journal; Honduras has become a central transfer point for drug shipments to the United States and there is more money to pay, and arm, land invaders, who strip the forest and transform the land into businesses like cattle ranching that can be used to launder drug money; communities conserving the forest, which is owned by the state, say they are losing their livelihood because of such incursions. MORE

Jan. 11, 2014

World Bank ombudsman issues a stinging critique of the bank’s private-sector arm over a loan to a Honduran palm-oil company engaged in a violent conflict with farm workers over land tenure. MORE

Nov. 26, 2013

Totals from electoral tribunal in Honduras show Juan Orlando Hernandez, governing conservative party's candidate, still leading the left-wing Libre party candidate Xiomara Castro by about five percentage points; Libre has rejected the officials results as fraudulent. MORE

Nov. 25, 2013

Honduras appears headed toward days of political tension as leading candidates Juan Orlando Hernandez and Xiomara Castro both declare that they have won the presidency; dispute comes at end of long campaign that has cracked open country's ossified politics. MORE

Nov. 23, 2013

Hondurans are preparing to head to polls to choose new president and Congress four years after coup expelled previous one; election promises to be close, raising concerns that losing parties may not honor the results. MORE

Sep. 13, 2013

Honduran government grants more than 7 percent of its territory to indigenous Miskito communities living on the land, initiative intended to help protect and preserve region's forests. MORE

Aug. 3, 2013

Organization of American States releases report that urges Honduran authorities to conduct diligent investigation into 2012 fire at Honduran prison that killed 362 people; report concludes that fire started accidentally but authorities were aware of the risk since 2004. MORE

May. 29, 2013

Honduras's largest and most dangerous street gangs declare truce, offering government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs. MORE

Apr. 18, 2013

Honduran congress suspends attorney general and his assistant and replaces them with temporary oversight committee, saying it is frustrated with some of world's worst criminal violence. MORE

Feb. 6, 2013

United States soccer team's three-day visit to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for World Cup qualifying match is designed to keep players out of harms way in city identified as most violent in the world. MORE

Nov. 28, 2012

United States resumes sharing radar intelligence with Honduras after four-month suspension, reviving international effort to stop drug planes from using country as smuggling way station; other forms of cooperation remain suspended due to concerns about American involvement in deadly drug raids. MORE

Nov. 16, 2012

American officials are seeking more information after learning that soldiers trained, vetted and equipped by United States government killed 15-year-old Ebed Yanes in Honduras; three Honduran soldiers have been charged in case, one for murder; US is already withholding aid dollars for police and military in country over concerns about human rights violations. MORE

Oct. 19, 2012

Supreme Court of Honduras strikes down plan to build series of model cities with their own independent tax and justice systems, proposal aiming to spur economic growth and foreign investment. MORE

Oct. 13, 2012

Senate Democrats withhold funding for an aggressive joint antidrug program in Honduras after a series of deaths involving lapsed protocols, including two planes that were shot down; clash between the Obama administration and lawmakers has been building for months as many question the effectiveness of military tactics to fight the rapid growth of organized crime in Central America. MORE

Oct. 1, 2012

Economist Paul Romer backs out of controversial 'charter city' project he started with the government of Honduras after Honduran agency overseeing project fails to consult him before signing a memorandum of understanding with its first investor group. MORE

Sep. 8, 2012

United States suspends all sharing of radar intelligence with Honduras in an effort to better control its militarized approach to combat drugs in Central America. MORE

Jul. 9, 2012

Two United States Drug Enforcement Administration agents shoot and kill suspected drug trafficker in Honduras; shooting, the second in a month, is the latest demonstration of the growing American involvement in counternarcotics operations in the country. MORE

Jun. 25, 2012

United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent shoots and kills a suspected drug trafficker during a raid in Honduras; officials say the agent fired in self-defense, but the shooting brings further attention to the United States’ growing involvement in counternarcotics operations in Central America, where commando-style squads of DEA agents have been working with local security forces in several countries. MORE

Jun. 23, 2012

Aerial surveillance video of counternarcotics mission in Honduras, which put a spotlight on intensifying American involvement in such operations in Central America, shows that American agents did not fire their weapons; four Hondurans were killed during the raid. MORE

Jun. 1, 2012

Raid on drug smugglers by Honduran and American agents in May, which led to the deaths of several villagers, highlights the United States' expanding efforts to combat drug trafficking in Central America with the help of local governments. MORE

May. 24, 2012

Residents on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras, which has become a way station for cocaine on its way north, say they feel threatened, despite an enormous influx of American military and antidrug support; they are furious with traffickers, disappointed in neighbors who rely on the drug trade for work, and frustrated with Honduran and American authorities, who they believe are more concerned with seizing cocaine than protecting people. MORE

May. 19, 2012

Some Honduran officials and residents claim victims of fatal joint Honduran-American anti-drug raid on the Patuce River were innocent people; statements challenge account of American drug enforcement agents, who told reporters that the boat passengers were probably participating in illegal drug trafficking. MORE

May. 18, 2012

Residents of Ahuas, in the isolated Mosquito Coast of Honduras, have burned down government buildings and are demanding that American Drug Enforcement Administration agents leave the area immediately, intensifying a dispute over whether an antidrug operation there left four innocent people dead, including two pregnant women; Honduran officials call for investigation, which could redefine America's role in fighting drug smuggling. MORE

May. 17, 2012

Honduras is a growing focus of American counternarcotics efforts aimed at drug cartels that have increasingly sought to use its ungoverned spaces as a way point in shipping cocaine from South America to the United States; murky circumstances surround recent firefights in which Drug Enforcement Administration agents accompanied Honduran police in battles against cocaine smugglers, leaving as many as four people dead. MORE

May. 13, 2012

Adam Davidson It's the Economy column describes how Honduran Pres Porfirio Lobo has embraced idea of setting up a charter city, economic zone governed by foreigners under a legal and political system that is different from the rest of the country; notes economist Paul Romer came up with idea, believing such charter cities are way for poor countries to modernize while avoiding the pitfalls of urbanization. MORE

May. 6, 2012

United States military, drawing on lessons from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has established outposts in Honduras to interdict smugglers moving cocaine toward the United States from South America; mission has attracted little public notice but is being conducted with the support of the Honduran government. MORE

May. 3, 2012

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights says that the conditions that led to the February fire that killed 361 people at the Comayagua national prison, were the result of decades of neglect of Honduras’s prisons and iron-fisted anticrime policies. MORE

Mar. 30, 2012

At least 13 people die during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison, with one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters; unrest comes weeks after fire at another prison in Honduras kills 361 inmates. MORE

Feb. 25, 2012

Saturday Profile of Dr Julieta Castellanos of Honduras, university leader who has emerged as an unlikely hero after the murder of her youngest son by Honduran police; Castellanos has been waging a public war with drug cartels and their grip on Honduras's institutions; many credit her with inspiring a call for change in a country that has turned into one of the most violent areas in the world. MORE

Feb. 18, 2012

United Nations human rights office calls for an independent investigation into a fire that killed more than 350 inmates at a prison in Comayagua, Honduras. MORE

Feb. 17, 2012

Families of the victims of the deadly fire at the Comayagua national prison in Honduras, in which at least 350 people were killed, call for justice after reports that fewer than half of the prisoners there had been convicted of a crime; disaster draws attention to the corruption plaguing the nation's legal system, where many accused of crimes spend far longer in legal limbo, leaving prisons like Comayagua grossly overcrowded. MORE

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